Long-time readers of this blog may recall that late in the summer, I had a horrible oral surgery called an apicoectomy. Well, it failed (by the way, avoid apicoectomies), and the only solution to this is--wait for it--another apicoectomy. If this one goes as poorly as the previous one, I may be out of commission for a few days.

But I would like to say that the suggestions for my 2007 New Year's Resolutions have been fantastic. Keep them coming--I am going to pick my favorite and live by it for all of 2007 (or until I get bored). Five are already out of the running, however, for various reasons:

1. Chuck thinks I should "grow a beard," which is a fantastic NYR, except I grew a beard in 2006, and I believe I'm only allowed to look that ridiculous once per decade.

2. Hannah wants me to "figure out wh geometry is sooooo hard." We don't have to wait till 2007 for that. I can just tell you now: Geometry is hard because it's boring. And it's boring because everything interesting and beautiful about it is kind of mind-bendingly complicated. So it is hard because it is boring, but to make it interesting would make it even harder.

3. Little Willow suggests that, having turned the beat around, I should now turn it upside down. Good idea, but I think it will take all of 2007 just to really get the beat fully turned around. I will consider endeavoring to turn it upside down in '08, however.

4. Jess says I should "accurately predict the winner of the 2007 Printz Award." I don't have to wait till 2007 to do that, either: Markus Zusak's The Book Thief will win, and it should win, and if it doesn't win I will be a seething ball of fury.

5. Jonathan thinks I should resolve to go skydiving. Um, I can't even resolve to go on the top step of a ladder.

Keep your resolution ideas coming. Here's to a quick return to blogging.